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Nights are starting to draw in again, so soon it'll be stargazing season! September is when everything starts to become far more fun from an astronomy perspective. The short nights of July and August that required you to stay up... Continue Reading →

There's a skill in taking photos of space. A lot of this skill comes from preparation, a lot in knowledge, even more in the equipment and a great deal of it is in luck. I don't have any of that.... Continue Reading →

One of my aunts just gave birth to her second yesterday: Hannah, 8lb 2. I have no idea if that's big, small, or indifferent. Heck, I only have a vague idea of how much a pound weighs: so she'd be... Continue Reading →

Continuing on my "constellation a month" theme, this month I’ll be talking about the Plough (or the Big Dipper, The Saucepan, Ursa Major or even The Great Bear, depending on where you're from. Even though it looks nothing like a... Continue Reading →

After months of waiting, the IVF process has officially begun. Yesterday Mrs Astronomer started her period and so the clock is running, because this cycle is when we start the drugs routine, switching off her ovar...

This will be an easy to follow, slightly tongue in cheek (but hopefully still useful) monthly digest on what’s up above you in the night sky of January 2017, for latitudes similar to that of the UK (Canada, N America, Ea...

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It’s amazing how the time goes! I haven’t blogged in a couple of weeks so thought I’d give a general update of what’s going on in my world. I’ve given up on the mindfulness as the second week annoyed me so much. I’ll probably give it another go at some point but not right now. […]

Hmm… well… week 2 has not gone well, I have seriously NOT been in the mood to lie down and meditate. I managed to lie down and do the whole thing once. This week the meditation consisted of the week 1 meditation and an extra meditation which was basically an elongated version of the first […]

So we put in an offer on a house which was accepted in April, the problem is that with every (tiny as either the vendors or the Estate Agents or both are making things difficult) step forward I get more and more reluctant to move into said house. The survey threw up a lot of […]

So I had a missed call today telling me that my appointment with the gynaecology clinic at the John Radcliffe, regarding the hysteroctopy has been cancelled. They very inconveniently phoned while I was already on the phone and left a message. I tried phoning back twice but no joy, I’m assuming because it’s after 5pm. […]

So as I said last week I’m taking the sister-in-laws advice and trying to follow a mindfulness course from this book:- Mindfulness a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world. Having read the whole thing through before beginning I was a bit sceptical to put it mildly. Having completed, for the most part […]